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Too busy to post anything!

I've been pre-occupied with lot of work lately. And understanding the logic of first things first, I'm putting my blogging desires for RapidBlog.com on hold for now as I am concentrating on completing my upcoming book. And besides this, I am also involved with my on-going work project that takes up another half of my time. Sometimes I wish, I had 48 hours in a day, but its a wishful thinking.

SaaS (Software as a Service). Some Enterprise Challenges.

I think some of the challenges which any enterprise company faces today are typical release cycles (program compliance), integration and regression testing (audit compliance), trace logs for transactions (SOX compliance), authentication integration (SOX/Federal/Compliance), data security (compliance), etc. A SaaS based application sounds nice and all from a ease-of-mind-perspective (and especially for small and medium size businesses) but has its own nightmares and bottlenecks. Its rightly pointed out in the write-up from Prof. James Morris about the development cycle for a communuty based/involved software development. But to an enterprise, especially large ones, its almost an impossible sell on SaaS.

Ruby on Rails. Rapid Development. Agile Framework.

I've been keeping myself busy (hence, no posts in past three weeks) with RoR development on a small project which I've taken along with my three person team. Its been fun so far; and working with Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an added bonus. The rapid development approach of RoR really drives the agility through the project. It reminds me of words like agile, rapid, RAD, scrum, etc. Its fantastic. But there is a learning curve especially when you aren't so familiar with the underlying scripting language such as 'Ruby'.

Emails. Tasks. Timeline.

I started this post about two weeks ago but never got to a point where I can actually sit down and finish it. So I decided to do this today. I am altering my style of writing to be more focused on my immediate subject matters and what I have at hand at the moment. I think that was my approach in the begining but somehow it got lost and I got into this RDF and RSS things and collecting news and then reporting it. Well anyone can subscribe to the news feeds and get to it. And this reminds me of MT. I still like Moveable Type (MT) when it started and had a clean code to download and what a clear out of the box implementation. Wordpress does the same now. And its much neater and presentable. And ajaxy! One of the reasons why I moved my new blog on my book to WordPress.com was simple and straight cause I like simple and straight approach. Wordpress does that, and it has most of the things which Blogger still lags/lacks into (I'm not complaining!). But I'm happy with both. And I really don't want to take the pain out of my already 20hrs workday to move more stuff from one place to the other. Enough ranting!

Droppie Water

My book. Open Source Project Management.

I've decided to create a separate blog for my book, Open Source Project Management, as the title suggests, the book is on open source and the project management practice in the open source world. Through this blog I want to focus on the subject of this book and little away from this blog. Although the subjects covered here are broader in open source world and include the business perspectives and does include project management per se but I still wanted to keep project management related thoughts on my book in a separate space which I strongly feel should be there. And this way I can get one-on-one response on my book. Although you are most welcome on this blog and read what else I have to say in other areas apart from the book's subject.

Ruby on Rails, AJAX & Web 2.0

I'm Google-trapped!

Lenovo To Shun Linux